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District Attorney Bowman Carter has the case of his life. A murder trial. He wins and his future is bright. There is even talk of running for Congress. Then disaster. The man who has spent the last seven years in prison is actually innocent. Carter is not only booted, but a terrible catastrophe befalls him. He is run out of town. Drunk and suicidal, he wakes up in the small seaside town of Port Royal South Carolina. There among a cast of eccentrics, he begins the slow, arduous task of healing—if it doesn’t kill him first.

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Time passed. Now he sat slumped, his head resting against cool glass. The stars overhead had given way to harsh lights, cast in rime, and a buzz surrounded him like a hundred different chants from the proselytes. Perhaps they would grant him a final request and cast him into the sea before he woke. It was only a dream. Only a dream. He began to rouse, not knowing if he was still dreaming. He lay on a soft bed. A gift before passing. He tried to focus. A wall curved steeply above his head. He reached a trembling finger, but could not touch it. He panicked. He was in an enormous coffin. But he wasn’t dead yet. He had been buried alive! He flailed in every direction. He struck something solid behind him. Pain flared. Maybe this, too, was a part of his death, to feel the pain of every movement, to feel the pain of a thousand thoughts—forever. ... view entire excerpt...

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